Google Search Console

Google sitemap submission + index monitoring + manual-action notices

Google Search Console

Role

Lets the family see how Google indexes every site:

• Submits the sitemap (https://<site>/sitemap-index.xml) to Google’s crawler
• Reports index coverage, errors, redirects, soft 404s
• Surfaces top search queries, CTR, average position
• Validates JSON-LD via the Rich Results tab
• Notifies of manual actions / spam flags

Each *.oriz.in subdomain is a separate property; the apex oriz.in is verified at the Domain-property level (one DNS TXT record covers every subdomain too).

Free tier

• Unlimited properties
• Domain-property verification via Cloudflare DNS TXT record (one record covers every subdomain — fits well with the family’s Cloudflare DNS setup per infrastructure/spaceship-registrar-cloudflare-dns.md)
• 16-month query history
• Core Web Vitals report driven by Chrome UX Report data

Card / subscription required?

NO. Standard Google account, no Cloud Billing link, no card.

Setup

1. Add Domain property oriz.in (covers every subdomain).
2. Verify via Cloudflare DNS TXT record (_google-site-verification).
3. Submit https://oriz.in/sitemap-index.xml and https://<each-subdomain>/sitemap-index.xml.
4. Check Index Coverage weekly, Rich Results monthly.

Alternatives

• None for Google’s index — GSC is the only first-party surface.
• Third-party SEO tools (Ahrefs / Semrush) infer Google data but cost money and don’t replace GSC’s manual-action notices.

Swap cost

Zero — GSC is a read-only console; abandoning it doesn’t change anything on the sites. Re-adding a property later is a few minutes.

Why this is our pick

It’s the only first-party Google index surface. Free, domain-verifies once for every subdomain, no card.

Cross-refs

• SEO three pillars decision
• @astrojs/sitemap — what GSC ingests
• JSON-LD — what GSC’s Rich Results report reads
• Bing Webmaster — same role, different engine
• Cloudflare DNS — TXT verification lives here
• No card-on-file rule

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